I know that by His stripes I am healed; then I am healed, and if I am healed, I am well, thank God! I have no more to do with my healing than I have to do with my resurrection, for He is my resurrection! He is my healing. He said, "I am the resurrection and the life."
63 years this past week, I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I was an 8 year old living with my family in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was on a Sunday and we weren’t able to attend church because of car issues. My father who was a strong follower of Jesus himself led me in a simple prayer of repentance and commitment beside my bed in my bedroom at 26 Edith Ave. I will never forget the wash of cleansing I felt rush through my soul even as a young boy.
“The box you see represents Cornerstone. I have filled it with my most precious diamonds, and jewels of all kinds. They have been chosen especially because they have been formed, purified buffed and fitted under great pressure yet they have not cracked or broken.”
The Bible teaches: 'In all circumstances give thanks.' As such, it is fitting that we mark this special year as a unique occasion to celebrate our proud history, reflect on our abundant blessings, pray for our country and our people, and rededicate ourselves as one Nation under God.
The influence of a mother on her children is profound, often described as "beyond calculation," shaping their character, emotional health, and worldview. Mothers act as primary educators and emotional pillars, instilling values like kindness, hard work, and faith while providing the secure attachment necessary for cognitive and social development.
We received this word from Prophet Marlene Le Riche of “Heal the Land Ministires” in South Africa this past week. Was feeling led to release it to you to encourage you in this season “changing winds”. God is in the midst of the wind. As I read this word, it reminded me of ISAIAH 43:18-19 ESV).
“Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
”A Shift Is Taking Place”
It’s time to birth what we have been carrying. carrying even too long. if you not prepared to birth a miscarriage will take place. now is the time. it has never been times and seasons as you have predicted says the Lord but according to my calendar my times and seasons as I please says the Lord
I was slain as a lamb but now I’m the Lion. the lion of Judah is coming forth and roaring. It’s a time of action stepping up and coming forth
I heard tiny bells ringing. the Lord is amongst us. His presence will increase as we are willing to go into action using our gifting moving in our order according to his call as the Spirit moves and directs.
As the Lord showed me. we are no longer butterflies. but eagles to soar higher and higher to his delight.
For too long we have stayed on one place. perched on one branch but the Lord states “I am the tree and have many branches and as the wind, my Spirit comes and sways the branches so we have to adapt to His calling upon our lives” to bend to crawl to speak to sway in His will according to His call for us
Be not perturbed, perplexed as it is not as usual but a new era, a new dispensation all according to my will says the Lord”
Amen!! Thank You Marlene,
THANK You so much.. May the Lord richly bless you!!
The power of Christianity is the blood of Jesus. Death passed on all of creation because of the transgression of Adam & Eve, (1 Corinthians 15:22), God demanded death as a payment.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
As the above verse states, Jesus became the sacrifice for all mankind. He lived a perfect life void of any sin so He could become that perfect sacrifice. 2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
At one moment on the cross, Jesus cried out "Eli, eli, lama sabachthani" (or Eloi, eloi. Is an Aramaic phrase which is translated…My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Jesus experienced the eternal separation from God of every man created in history. That’s why He could cry out in his final declaration from the cross “It is Finished”. In Aramaic, it is commonly rendered as Meshullam (or Mashálam) which means “finished”, “paid” or “completed’. It is often used in the “Peshita” (The Aramaic Bible) as a mathematical or financial term meaning “Paid in Full”!
Jesus’ blood did what the blood of sheep and bulls could not do. The blood of sheep and bulls only covered sin. Jesus blood completely removes sin. (Hebrews 9:10-13
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Why is Jesus’ blood important to the believer.
What do we receive because of His sacrifice?
Atonement and Forgiveness: The Bible states that "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (Hebrews 9:22). Jesus' blood paid the penalty for human sin, known as substitutionary atonement. No other religion has this truth.
Redemption: His blood is described as the "ransom" paid to purchase humanity's freedom from the bondage of sin (1 Peter 1:18–19).
Direct Access to God: Unlike Old Testament rituals that required a high priest, believers are said to have "boldness to enter the Holiest" by the blood of Jesus, allowing for a personal relationship with God (Hebrews 10:19).
Cleansing and Sanctification: It is a spiritual cleansing agent that purifies the conscience from guilt (1 John 1:7-9)
From a practical purpose, the Blood of Jesus has tremendous power in prayer and spiritual warfare. "Pleading the blood of Jesus" is a form of prayer used to invoke the power of Jesus' sacrifice for protection, deliverance, and spiritual victory. While the exact phrase is not found in the Bible, practitioners ground the concept in the redemptive and protective nature of blood sacrifices seen throughout Scripture. ‘
In this context, "pleading" is often viewed as a legal term rather than a plea for mercy. It is seen as presenting the "evidence" of Jesus' finished work on the cross to a spiritual court, asserting that the devil has no legal claim over a believer's life.
Believers typically plead the blood for:
Protection: Drawing a "blood line" that evil cannot cross, similar to the Passover lamb's blood in Exodus.
Spiritual Warfare: Rebuking demonic attacks, fear, or persistent problems.
Healing & Provision: Claiming health and spiritual breakthroughs as part of the inheritance purchased by Jesus.
Cleansing: Purifying the mind and conscience from guilt or sin.
The blood of Jesus is the foundation of the faith, representing the supreme sacrifice that reconciles humanity with God. It’s importance stems from the fact the “the life of the flesh is in the blood (Lev 17:11) and the requirement that “without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22
Jesus said that if we wanted to follow Him, we had to drink His blood and eat His body (John 6:53-58)
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
During the Last Supper, Jesus took the wine and said “this is my blood”, instructing followers to drink it in remembrance of him. Then He said, “this is my body, given for you”. There are some who believe the wine and blood literally become the blood and flesh of the Lord. This doctrine is called “transubstantiation”. Whether it actually does or not is immaterial to me. If Jesus said it, then it is so whether is transforms into His actual blood or body or not.
This shedding of His blood was the foundation of a new covenant which than ratified all the covenants of the Old Testament.
The “Shroud of Turin” shows a crucified man from the 1st century. It shows that this individual received 702 lashes during his flogging. Scientists believe that Jesus lost 1/3 of His blood volume during this flogging. Here’s what the prophet Isaiah had to say 600 years before Christ. (Isaiah 53:3-5)
“He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces[f]
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds (some versions use the word ‘stripes’) we are healed”.
Did you know that Jews are forbidden to read this chapter of Isaiah? Why? They would recognize Jesus as the fulfillment of these verses.
Thank you Jesus for dying for me! Thank you for shedding Your blood for me to completely remove the stain of sin. Thank you for giving me Your righteousness so that I can boldly enter the throne room through your grace according to the writer of Hebrews. Thank you that your stripes or wounds were placed on your body for the healing of all my diseases. I will pick up my cross daily to destroy my flesh and follow You. Like the example of the Apostle Paul’s handkerchief in Acts 19,I plead the blood of Jesus to all who read this blog to be set free from the bondage of religion, the oppression of captivity to sin and the healing of all diseases in Jesus name”.
Jesus responded to suffering with humility and obedience. The key word here is “responded”. Peter reacted with violent action. Jesus responded with patient obedience trusting in the Father’s plan. Living in the Spirit always involves a response knowing God has a plan and a purpose even when we can’t see it. The Spirit responds, the flesh always reacts!
His answer pleased the Lord so much that God did indeed give him world renown wisdom. However, as time would tell, gaining great wisdom brought with it great temptation. The book of Ecclesiastes is the testimony of Solomon’s life. Another good title would’ve been “King Gone Wild”! This is Solomon’s story in the second chapter.
Do not be hard-hearted at their cry for help, for forgiveness, and absolution. You are My Body here upon the earth, and you must do as I did for you and others when I cried out, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” My servant, Stephen, did the same and did so in My power and not his own. You, too, will be able to allow My love and hope flow toward them so that they can have peace and live for Me. Remember those who are forgiven much, love much. Amen.
I sense the Lord saying to many of us in transition: "Watch for the exit signs this season along major highways." This could mean a significant change of direction or a minor adjustment in our lives and ministry. Major highways speed up our traveling, but exits take us to our destination. Could it be that the Lord is calling many of us off of the highways and to the byways, to take our hands off the steering wheels of our ministry to get our hands on the harvest?
Knowing and learning the “War Manual” (The Bible) will give you the confidence, strategy and victory over the enemy. The Apostle Paul wrote this to his spiritual son Timothy to encourage Him in how to war from victory and not in fog and confusion; 1 Timothy 1:18-20
This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, 19 holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, 20 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
“As you seek Me and yield to My ways, I am bringing you into new days of boldness and courage. I have been forging you deeply in the fire, My Refiner's fire has been hot, but as you have yielded to My fire, I have been deeply establishing and forming your character, I have been purifying your heart and I have been establishing you in greater maturity as you have yielded to My process and My fire. For those that have yielded to My fire and My process in the past seasons, I am causing you to arise in these days with greater strength in Me from the place of deep dependency upon Me, to release My voice with greater boldness and courage. In the fire I have been forging you and I have been delivering you from the fear of man as you have been encountering Me and My Majesty and walking in reverent awe of who I am.
This past Wednesday, February 18th was the beginning of the 40 days of Lent. Lent is a 40-day (excluding Sundays) Christian liturgical season of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving starting on Ash Wednesday and ending before Easter. It serves as a period of repentance, spiritual reflection and preparation for the celebration of Christ’s resurrection, representing the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness.
The Lord desires to bring us from a friendship into a deep intimate walk with Him. It is only in that place of total commitment that He can truly do the work of refining that He desires. The Apostle John known as “John the beloved” knew this true commitment perhaps more than any other of the disciples. After the rest of the disciples fled from Jesus after His arrest in the garden, John followed the Lord closely and was with Jesus every step of the way including being at the cross-witnessing Jesus’ crucifixion.
Running the Race: In 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, Paul exhorts believers to run in such a way that they "get the prize," comparing the Christian journey to a race requiring intense dedication.
· “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”
In scripture water, plays a very important role in both the natural and the spiritual. Water is a powerful and multi-dimensional theme, appearing more than 500 times from the opening verses of Genesis to the final chapter of Revelation. It is portrayed as a tool of creation, a means of judgment, and a profound symbol of spiritual life. Beyond its physical form, water represents spiritual renewal and the Holy Spirit.
With the pending snow/ice storm headed our way for this weekend, I recorded a Podcast on “Cornerstonefrederick” on YouTube or “Cornerstone Fellowship” on Rumble. The topic is a Pastor’s perspective on the new revelations from Mike Winger concerning the moral failures concerning the NAR. The leaders of the movement new of the moral failures and never did anything sufficient enough to protect the “flock”.
It’s hard to forgive when you’ve been hurt deeply. Granting forgiveness is not excusing what happened. Forgiveness is about freeing your heart from carrying the weight any longer. It’s about being free to hear His voice and focusing on the task at hand. Finally it’s about closing ranks and not giving the enemy of our souls free reign to destroy our unity and keeping us in bondage. Here is the power of oneness; Matthew 18:19-20
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Joel 2:18-19 Then the Lord became jealous for his land and had pity on his people. The Lord answered and said to his people,“Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations
